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J.K. Rowling gets backlash over anti-trans tweets

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Many people are calling out “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling for a series of anti-trans tweets on Saturday afternoon.

Rowling’s latest controversy began when she commented on an article from global health website Devex titled “Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.”

“‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” Rowling tweeted.

People on Twitter immediately called Rowling’s comments “anti-trans” and “transphobic” as transgender people, non-binary people and gender-nonconforming people can also menstruate. Rowling followed that tweet up by criticizing the idea that someone’s biological sense isn’t real.

 

More: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/jk-rowling-transphobic-tweets-controversy-1234627081/amp/

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Y’all are legit stupid if you don’t think her tweets are transphobic. No one is asking her of her opinion to define sex and gender yet she is spewing utter bullshit tweet after tweet that being Female is something she was born with and cannot be taken from her. Great whatever, but why shut down one segment of feminism to highlight your own?  She’s trying to now backtrack by saying she respects trans people, but is putting them down at the same time saying they are not validly female. What makes her dumpster fire ass the gatekeeper of gender? Shouldn’t she be too busy rolling in all the cash she made off a shitty book series filled with racial stereotypes and just shitty writing rih6

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18 minutes ago, SHANE said:

Y’all are legit stupid if you don’t think her tweets are transphobic. No one is asking her of her opinion to define sex and gender yet she is spewing utter bullshit tweet after tweet that being Female is something she was born with and cannot be taken from her. Great whatever, but why shut down one segment of feminism to highlight your own?  She’s trying to now backtrack by saying she respects trans people, but is putting them down at the same time saying they are not validly female. What makes her dumpster fire ass the gatekeeper of gender? Shouldn’t she be too busy rolling in all the cash she made off a shitty book series filled with racial stereotypes and just shitty writing rih6

the way she digs herself deeper into that lil hole of hers lol3

she's transphobic trash and her writing is....cute jay1

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On 6/7/2020 at 2:10 PM, SHANE said:

Y’all are legit stupid if you don’t think her tweets are transphobic. No one is asking her of her opinion to define sex and gender yet she is spewing utter bullshit tweet after tweet that being Female is something she was born with and cannot be taken from her. Great whatever, but why shut down one segment of feminism to highlight your own?  She’s trying to now backtrack by saying she respects trans people, but is putting them down at the same time saying they are not validly female. What makes her dumpster fire ass the gatekeeper of gender? Shouldn’t she be too busy rolling in all the cash she made off a shitty book series filled with racial stereotypes and just shitty writing rih6

This. And the fact that she threw this hissy fit over the term "people who mentruate". Like does she have nothing better to get upset over? dead2

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she's probably a radical femenist from what i've seen, the theory itself paints gender as "fake" and a social construct, they think only your sex at birth defines you and that women's oppression comes solely for being biologically female etc etc etc, so to them transgender people uphold and reinforce sexist gender roles and the gender binary they're trying to break free of. the theory itself makes sense to me but when put to practice it's dead4 it comes off as transphobic, which a lot of radical femenists seem to be. either way that branch of femenism barely has any impact outside of social media 

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5 hours ago, Kirjava said:

This. And the fact that she threw this hissy fit over the term "people who mentruate". Like does she have nothing better to get upset over? dead2

I guess she had to occupy her time between making up dumb ass facts about Harry Potter.

She's just trash.

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